Gardening and micro farming are only inefficient when your priority is profits for the few big agri corporations, rather than many local family farmers making profit off of many separate smaller acreages. Micro farms can make well over $1,000 per acre, while big chemical agriculture makes about $25 per acre. If you start to look at the pounds of food per square foot, and nutrient density in food grown in living soil, industrial agriculture comes up shamefully inefficient. Not only are big agribusiness and GMO farming inefficient at the amount of nutrient produced per acre, they are also the most inefficient at creating the soil life that will guarantee that we can eat next year and the year after that, etc. So, the question is which matters more, deficiency in profits for a few, or deficiency in life? ~~~~~ Lichen June is the Director of the Northwest Permaculture Institute in Oregon, USA
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:56:46 +0000
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